Brigitte Cheyrou Arts and Travel

Notes of my being an artist as well as a leader/organizer of trips with small groups to different places, of interest to artists and non artists alike, such as Provence, Morocco, Taos, and for the adventurous, Thailand and the Philippines, etc.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Puerto Vuallarta - Bucerias


Un apres midi en me promenant j'ai vu des jeunes ecoliers pratiquer une danse regionale. Une grande affiche parlait d' un concours de danses regionales par les jeunes des ecoles...
je suis arrivee pres de l'estrade vers 19.00h ou le spectacle etait commence, beaucoup de mexicains , de parents mais peu d'etrangers comme moi.
J'ai rarement vu un spectacle aussi bien prepare, les costumes si colores des differentes regions du Mexique, les maquillages des jeunes les rendaient encore plus fabuleux et la musique! il y a meme une region qui a une musique d'inspiration francaise qui date de la colonisation...j'ai vraiment ete transportee...J'ai trouve dommage que peu de mes compatriotes faisaient parti des spectateurs . J'ai passe une magnifique soiree , regrettant seulement apres 20.00h le soleil etant parti pour d'autres horizons , mes photos ne sont pas terribles...Surtout que les plus ages des jeunes avec leurs costumes a la Frida Khalo dansaient comme des anges!


BUCERIAS- MEXICO

One afternoon while I was poking around in town, I came upon a group of young students practicing a regional dance, near a large banner annoncing a show and competition among the schools that evening. I came back around 7 pm for start; the spectators were mostly locals, lots of parents of the dancers of course but few visitors like myself.
I have rarely see a show so well prepared, the wonderful coloured of the costumes of the different regions of Mexico; the way the young people were made-up and everything made even more fabulous by the music..
There was also surprisingly region who's music was of French inspiration , dating back to colonial times. It was infortunate that so few of my compatriots were among the spectators- I was totally transported by the whole experience, my only regret being that the sun left for other horizons around 8 pm , I could not take good photos , especially those of the older dancers in their costumes a la Frida Khalo, dancing like angels!

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